Police investigate stabbing on UVM campus

Dec. 3, 2012

University of Vermont police officers and Burlington Fire Department firefighters examine the scene of a stabbing on campus on Monday. Firefighters on the scene reported that two people were transported to Fletcher Allen Health Care. / GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS

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Two stabbing victims were taken from Redstone campus of the University of Vermont to Fletcher Allen Health Care on Monday night, campus police said.

A third person involved in the altercation also was in need of unspecified medical attention and was taken to the hospital following the 6:15 p.m. incident in the Wing Hall parking lot at 486 S. Prospect St.

Bilodeau said UVM officers had located all the people believed involved in the altercation. He said police were obtaining statements from them in an effort to sort out what happened. A subsequent news release from UVM police said suspects had been “identified.”

Some of those involved in the altercation were known to each other, police said. Officers had taped off an area in two parking lots behind Redstone Hall.

UVM Police Chief Lianne Tuomey said names were not being released immediately, but at least two of those at the hospital are UVM students. At least two ambulances responded to the scene.

Tuomey was seen assisting in the investigation by taking license plate numbers and investigating the parking lot about 7 p.m. Monday.

“There us no continued danger to the UVM community from this incident,” a UVM Police news release said.

Police promised more information will be released as it becomes available.

They asked anybody with information about the incident or was in the Wing parking lot between 5:30 and 6:15 pm. Monday to call UVM Police at 656-3473.